Endocrine Abstracts

Rising thyroglobulin (Tg) serum concentration in patients after total thyroidectomy due to differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) with no pathological radioiodine uptake on posttherapeutic whole-body scan (WBS) constitutes a challenge for physicians dealing with DTC management.The FDG PET–CT is regarded as a gold diagnostic standard in such cases.Our aim was to find factors which may help predicting positive PET–CT result, a...

Anatomical proximity, common blood supply and variability of location of the parathyroid glands make them prone to damage in the course of thyroid gland surgery. Total thyroidectomy (TT) poses a greater risk of postsurgical hypoparathyroidism (hypoPT) than a unilateral lobectomy, and neck lymph nodes dissection is an established risk factor of HypoPT. HypoPT lasting longer than 6–12 months postoperatively is considered permanent. The mechanism responsible for the recover...

Introduction: Multifocal papillary thyroid microcarcinama (PTmC) has been considered as more aggressive than the unifocal one.Aim of the study: This paper aims to compare this two groups considering histopatological sign of aggressivity, presence of inflammation and radioiodine uptake.Materials and methods: The analysis concerned 81 patient with microcarcinoma (PTmC) selected from group of 961 (8%) diagnosed and treated in conventi...